We are proud to announce
that the Literary
Agency Mertin has just been voted International Literary Agent of the Year
2015 by The London Book Fair, in
partnership with the UK Publishers Association!
It’s a great acknowledgement of our work and above all, it's a great tribute to
our outstanding authors.

José Eduardo Agualusa’snovelA General Theory
of Oblivion, which has just been published at Harvill
Secker in the UK, is already receivinggreat critical acclaim: If it’s true that
a man with a good story is practically a king, then Agualusa
can count himself among the continent’s new royals. Alongside Mozambique’s Mia Couto, Agualusa has already
become one of lusophone Africa’s most distinctive
voices. Financial Times

The Mozambican author was recently shortlisted
for the Man Booker International Prize
2015. He also received the prestigious Neustadt
International Prize for Literature 2014 and the Camões Prize for Literature 2013 and was longlisted for the International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015.

Héctor
Abad’s latest novel La Oculta (“The Hideaway”) has been number 1
among the bestselling
novels in Colombia since November 2014! Like his bestselling novel
El olvido que seremos, La Oculta is part autobiographic, part fiction.

The book containing the
novels Um homem: Klaus Klump (“Klaus
Klump: A Man”) and A Máquina de Joseph Walser (“Joseph Walser’s
Machine”) by Gonçalo
M. Tavares was shortlisted for the Prémio Jean-Monnet de LiteraturaEuropeia.
Among the award’s former winners are Lídia Jorge,
Claudio Magris, Antonio Tabucchi
and Patrick Modiano.

Mia Couto is among the ten finalists
of the sixth Man
Booker International Prize, one of the most important awards for
books in the English language. In 2013, the Mozambican author was awarded the Camões Prize for Literature and the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2014.
He has also been longlisted for the International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015. Previous winners include Lydia Davis,
Philip Roth and Alice Munro.

At the Cartagena Film Festival, the documentaryCarta a una sombra (“Letter to a Shadow”),
based on the bestselling memoir El olvido que seremos
(“Oblivion”) by Héctor Abad
Faciolince, won the prestigious Audience Award Club Colombia,
which consists of USD$ 15,000. The film was directed by the author’s daughter
Daniela Abad and by Miguel Salazar. The novel sold over 180,000 copies in
Spanish and was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the USA.

With her novel El río (“The River”)
the Argentinian writer Débora Mundani
is second in the category “Novel” of the prestigious Premio Literario Casa de
las Américas 2015, one of the most important Latin American literary awards.

Lídia Jorge has been awarded the Vergílio Ferreira Award 2015 for
her body of work. Among the previous winners are Mia Couto and Hélia Correia.
In 2013, the grande dame of
Portuguese literature was named one of the 10 great
voices of European literature by the French Magazine Littéraire.

Mia
Couto, winner of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for
Literature and the Camões Prize for Literature 2013, dominatesthecover of the January 2015 issue of World Literature
Today. You can also listen to the KGOU radio interview where the
Mozambican author describes his early life, including memories of the war for
independence that would shape his literary career: kgou.org

Gonçalo M. Tavares has been entitled as brilliantby the French Magazine
Littéraire. Also, various of the multiple
award-winning author’s books have been voted among the best books of 2014 in the English language media as well as in France, Spain, Argentina, The Netherlands, Brazil and
Turkey. He has been compared to Kafka
and Karl Ove Knausgard and is already
considered a
classic by Le Monde.

Dulce Maria Cardoso’s novel O retorno
(“The Return”) has been voted as number 4 of the 10 favourite books 2014 of the
French financial newspaper Les Échos, next to Joyce Carol Oates (Nr.3),
Ian McEwan (Nr.5) and JMG Le Clézio (Nr.7). The award-wining novel will be
launched by MacLehose Press in the UK.

Héctor Abad’s latest novel La Oculta
(“The Hideaway”), only published in the middle of November,
is number 1
among the bestselling
novels in Colombia for the entire year 2014! Like his bestselling novel El olvido que seremos, La Oculta is part autobiographic, part fiction.

Sérgio Rodrigues’s novelO drible
(“The Feint”) has won the prestigious Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura 2014. He
also won the PT
Grand Prize, which is awarded to the best literary work among the
winners of the different categories of the Prêmio
Telecom. The novel was already shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize and the
Prémio São Paulo de Literatura.

The English edition of Todo es silencio
(“All is Silence”) by Manuel Rivas
was chosen as the second of Irish Times literary correspondent Eileen
Battersby’s favourite
books 2014: Galician poet
Manuel Rivas has a gleeful field day with narrative in this textured morality
play cum thriller that ricochets between politics, intellectual games, emotion
and regret. It also has flashes of the mighty American, William Gaddis – no
need to say more.

The multiple award-winning Portuguese authorLídia Jorge
has been awarded the Premio Luso-Español de Arte y Cultura 2014,
which is conceded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports to honour
the work that best creates a link between Spain and
Portugal and addresses topical issues. The prize is bestowed biannually
and consists of 75,000 Euro.

English
world rights for the captivating novel O retorno
(“The Return”) by Dulce Maria Cardoso,
one of the most important literary voices in Portugal, have just been sold to MacLehose Press,
an imprint of Quercus. They also bought
English world rights for Jorge Carrión’s
extraordinary book Librerías
(“Bookshops”), which came second in the prestigious Anagrama
Award for Essays.